I love my holidays. Unfortunately I don’t get enough holidays in my life because I work too much. I don’t like working, I’d much rather be on holidays.
Here’s a treat coming up for me soon, I get to go away this weekend. What a great treat, it will be really nice to get away and have a holiday.
I get to go with a friend because my family all have some sort of concert to go to and they can’t come so I get to go with a friend of mine. Last time I took my family, but not this time.
We are thinking of camping. I have a good tent, canvas, water proof, big enough to be comfortable and its forecast to rain, so I may need all of that too. I hope it doesn’t rain because rain isn’t what you need to have when you go camping.
We leave Friday morning at about 4 am. We’re meeting some other people at 6 and it will take about 1 hour to get to where we’re meeting. I don’t really like getting up early, good thing I don’t have to too often. In fact I hate early mornings.
But it’s not much of a drama really getting up early if you’ve got a holiday to get up for. And I’m looking forward to it so it’s not that much of a problem to me.
I hope the car does ok, its not really old but its not all that new either and Id hate to think the car let me down and didn’t make it.
I broke my old fishing rod a while ago and I bought a new rod this morning because I plan to do some fishing on Saturday. Saturday is planned to be a free day and so I’m off fishing. And so I needed a new rod because I’d broken the old one.
My old broken rod was one I made a long time ago. I bought the fiberglass blank and all the runners and made it myself and I’ve used it and used it. I was pretty impressed with myself that I managed to make my own fishing rod myself. (more…)
I’ve lived a number of different places in the world in my life. For instance when I was younger I was lucky enough to spend a bit of time living in France. It wasn’t full time, I just lived there on and off because I had a friend there.
France is a fantastic place and I would love to live there all my life but unfortunately that’s not life is it?
I’m lucky enough to live in the country now and I just love living in the country. I’ve lived out here for a few years now, more than I care to remember actually. And I grew up in the city but I wouldn’t really want to go back there again.
There’s just so much to living in the country that you just can’t find living in a city. Here’s one example. I love cycling and do it heaps out here. It helps keep me fit and that’s important and I really need to keep fit. And it gets me into some beautiful outdoors locations.
I ride past so many wonderful things to see. I love to see cows and I see sheep and other animals as well. I even have my own cows and they give me calves which is great too, because I love having calves.
There’s lots of advantages to living out here and cows and calves at my place is just one of them. It’s nature and I love nature, and seeing nature.
Now it’s summer and it’s really hot and I can feel it right through my feet. There’s been some very hot weather and it’s getting on top of me, I don’t like the heat much. Of course it would still be hot if I lived in a city but here it’s still better. I see nature, I see the seasons come and go over time and I see things like the grass start to grow and stop and the leaves fall off the trees and regrow again.
I see the leaves of the trees turn different colors too, there’s so many wonderful colors. I see the new trees growing underneath the old ones when the seeds germinate. I see the old and the young the dead and the living, I see the new and the not so young.
All of these things cycle, just like me. They go round and round and I really see what the seasons are.
Maybe if I lived in a city I’d have a little garden, maybe even no garden. And I might not even have a tree at all. Maybe all I’d have is some concrete in my back yard and no more, except a BBQ perhaps because I do love to ahve a BBQ.
And unlike here I probably wouldn’t get to see the seasons change like I do.
The city is so sterile really. I spent a lot of years there so I know what its like and I don’t like it. Now of course thats just a personal view, but thats how I feel about it now.
Of course all my family lives in the city and they love it. My brother is a doctor and hes single, so he likes all the social life of the city. Theres things to do there that he’s into, and it suits him. But the city is not for me at all.
Its a shame that I spent so many years of my life in the city and wasted them. No thats not fair, they werent wasted of course, I lived my life and that was what I did then. But now that I’ve found the country I prefer it here. Maybe I should talk to my brother and suggest he moves out here some time. (more…)
I have to tell you that I’m not as fit as I would like to be. I’m probably a bit overweight, well to be quite honest on probably a lot overweight, and I’ve decided it’s time to do something about getting fit.
And losing weight, because hopefully getting fit will involve losing weight as well.
So I’ve decided I’m going to take a bike riding. Cycling has to be just one of the best ways to get fit and feel good at the same time.
Ive said it before but I just love cycling.
I started cycling quite a while ago. Well not that long ago actually, considering that I’m not young. I knew I had to do something to keep fitter.
I tried swimming a few times. Can you believe how boring swimming is? Up and down a pool, hour after hour after hour. Well actually it was probably never longer than 20 minutes but it felt like hour after hour to me, if not 2.
Underneath there’s this black line and you just watch that black line, there’s nothing else to do other than swim of course. It’s really very boring and I just couldn’t keep at it.
If you really want to get fit you need to swim at least 3 or 4 times a week, probably more than that. And if you find something boring then you’re not going to do it 3 or 4 times a week and keep at it are you?
And that’s doing at least a 1/2 hour. You need to swim for at least a half hour to get enough exercise and it just feels like such a waste of time.
So I was in a bit of a bind. I used to jog and found that just as boring as swimming and so I was a little stuck. But then I started to think about riding.
But I had a problem. No bike. Well I did have a bike but it was outside the shed in the junk pile and all rusted. Way too old. So somehow I had to get a bike and it isn’t cheap to buy a good bike.
So I went and talked to some of the people in the local riding and found out that there was a new recreational cycling group starting up and that I could join it if I wanted to. So I figured that all the stars were lined up and it was time to just go out there and by a new bike.
And right from the start once I joined the new cycling group I loved the riding. They changed their rides and did longer and shorter ones. But I did find that the pace of riding was not quite right for me.
Now I’m not young, 53 actually, but even so I wanted to go a little faster. The ride was more social than a workout and I wanted a good workout as well. Eventually I dropped out to ride on my own because I needed to ride a little harder to get a real workout that was good for me.
The club also had another riding group that went out on Sundays and it had much better riders in it, some racers, and so I decided that I would try and join the Sunday ride, but was worried that I would never keep up. (more…)
Hello to the world from Bryan. This is a totally new project from me and I’m really excited. I’m on the Internet.
I’ve spent some time browsing around the Internet before and really enjoyed it so I’ve decided that I’m going to do something about making my own website.
Now I have to say that I have no idea how to make a website. Luckily one of my good friends knows how to do it and so he offered to make me a very simple website for me to use and this is it.
He even showed me how to use all the buttons and how to write and publish on it.
I love it and I’m going to spend my time writing about myself right here. I have no idea if anyone will ever read it but that doesn’t matter.
Welcome to my website.
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